Ye shall forget to join your justice right.
You should not judge till things be well discerned;
Your charge is still to maintain upright laws:
In conscience’ rules ye should be thoroughly learned—
Where clemency bids wrath and rashness pause;
And further saith, strike not without a cause:
And when ye smite, do it for justice’ sake;
Then in good part each man your scourge will take.
Thomas Churchyard.
Had I a hundred mouths, a hundred tongues,